3.7.1 Map Menu
If you click again on the price, you will fly to that city. The latest data of the city you have left will be saved onto your saved game disk PIZ-GAMESAVE (AMIGA only) or onto your hard disk in the GAMESAVE directory. They will be reloaded when you return. If you are carrying any weapons at this stage in the game, you will take them with you to the other city.
3.7.2 Character Menu
If you click on the CHARACTER key, you will be taken to your personal character menu. Here the game mode is shown, and the time when you want to get up the next morning (normally 9.00) is displayed in your note book.
Wake-up time:
Using the arrow icons in the note book, you can set your alarm clock to any time between midnight and nine am. You might need to do this for various reasons:- You might need more time for your activities.
- You might want to burgle one of your competitors, which can only be done at night See section 'CLOAK-AND-DAGGER OPERATIONS".
Holidays:
Press the switch on your desk lamp to take a couple of days off. You can set the number of days you want to take with the two arrows in the box. If you go on holiday, you leave the game for the chosen time period to recuperate. Meanwhile the other players - humans as well as computer players continue the game.The longer your break, the more your character can relax. With every day off, your health value will increase by a certain number of points depending on your age. The younger your character is, the more good the holiday will do him and the shorter the time needed to recuperate by a certain number of points.
At the beginning of the game you should avoid going on holiday, otherwise you might give the competition too much of a head start. You would risk missing new trends, market changes or important newspaper items. Also your restaurants would be an easy target for attacks and any other nasty activities your competitors might think of.
Nothing is more depressing than coming home from a holiday feeling fresh and relaxed - only to discover that you have gone bust in the meantime! Once you have got a good grip on your restaurants by entering into long-term supply contracts, employing managers and ensuring you have the necessary cash to cover running costs, you can and should spoil yourself from time to time. If you are relaxed and healthy you will be a lot more active and successful than if you are sickly and exhausted and have to stop work at 3 pm because you have run out of energy. Using the two arrow keys of the key pad, you can go to the player whose data you would like to look at.
3.7.2.1. Character values
If you press the CHARACTER VALUE key, the values for health, energy etc. will be displayed. For detailed information see the section THE PIZZA TYCOON CHARACTERS.3.7.2.2. Company
3.7.2.3. Curriculum vitae
Pressing the CURRICULUM VITAE key will take you to this menu item. All major actions you take are noted and appear along with the exact date in your curriculum vitae. This means that you can trace the day you made your first million or the day a restaurant of your chain was awarded the title "Most beautiful pizzeria in town". Browse through the pages of your CV using the arrow keys. CVs can be saved separately so that other players can use them as missions.3.7.2.4. Status
| Social | Underworld |
| Hopeless case | As good as dead |
| Failure | Loser |
| Worker | Amateur |
| Small entrepreneur | Gambler |
| Restaurateur | Pocket thief |
| Business man | Thug |
| Self-made man | Gangster |
| Hero | Pimp |
| Star | Professional |
| Freeman | Killer |
| Mayor | Boss |
| Senator | Mafia big wig |
| President | Godfather |
Social:
- Successful ownership of as many restaurants as possible
- Your wealth
- Your popularity with the customers
- The creation of delicious pizzas
- High turnover
- Good business contacts with many suppliers -Awards
- Control over large parts of the city
- Carrying out contracts for the underworld
- Regular contacts with the mafia
- Ruthless behavior towards competitors
- Taking part in shady dealings
- Periods in jail
3.7.2.5. Awards
- Most Beautiful Restaurant in Town Medal
- The Golden Pizza for the Pizza of the Year
- Best Investor in Town Star
- The Cooking Spoon for the most successful imitator of the year
- The Golden Bow Tie for the fastest service
- The World Trade Badge
The competition for the "Pizza of the Year' only takes place at the end of every year. Anyone can take part and financial contributions are not necessary. Your aim is to present a new pizza creation and receive high marks from the jury. The pizza baker with the highest marks will be awarded the "Pizza of the Year" Medal. For one year, he will also be allowed to advertise his creation in his restaurant as "Pizza of the Year" (with the appropriate year).
The title "Imitator of the year" is awarded every year on the 30th of July. Here the medal will be presented to the cook who has won most pizza competitions (at least 5).
3.7.2.6. Target CV
The target CV is only used if you are playing in mission mode. You are given the CV that you will have to "re-live". At every stage of the CV a percentage will be displayed, telling you how closely you have managed to stick to the given career.3.7.2.7. Turn Page
Use the arrow keys to scroll through the other players. Apart from the CV with private information, you have access to all files concerning your competitors. The ARROW keys are also used to turn the pages of your own CV.3.7.3 Disk Menu
With the DISK key you can go to the system level. The game will be paused and the game time stopped, so chance events cannot happen. The following functions are available:3.7.3.1. Saving
- the current game
- your character
- your CV as a mission
On saving, the extension ".GAM" is added to game files, ".CHR2" to character files and ".MIS" to mission files. The extensions are added automatically - you need not type them in.
3.7.3.2. Old game
Loads a previously saved game. If you choose OLD GAME, a list of all previously saved games will appear and you can select the game of your choice by clicking on it. If you do not want to load any of them, simply click somewhere outside the box.3.7.3.3. Settings
Sets the options of the game. Under SETTINGS you can choose and save your game configuration. The chosen settings are stored under the name "PIZPREFS",Amiga users: If you are playing from disk, the settings are also stored under "PIZPREFS" on your saved game disk PIZ-CON1.
3.7.3.4. Quit
Quits the game and takes you back to Workbench or DOS.3.7.3.5. Ok
Continues the game.3.7.4 Advertising
All activities you now choose via the KEY PAD refer to the campaign you have chosen:
- View/Advertising: Here you can have a closer look at the advertisement.
- Shopping: Starts a marketing campaign of the selected type.
- Turn Page: You can determine the length of the marketing campaign (at least 7 days). You can also extend its duration after it has already started.
After you have left the menu, the campaign can still be extended but not shortened. You can follow a selected marketing campaign by clicking on it.
If you have started an advertising campaign using the BUY key, you can select the exact nature of the campaign with the arrow keys:
- Flyers - Choose the number to be printed.
- Posters - Choose the graphics.
- Newspaper ads - Choose your individual slogan from a number of text blocks and determine its size using the arrow keys. The effectiveness of the ad depends on the contents of the slogan. If you have chosen a slogan and decide later that you do not like, you cannot stop the campaign because the marketing agency will already have started the preparations. All you can do is cut costs by choosing a small advertisement format and a short duration for the campaign.
- TV ads - Choose the commercial you like best.
3.7.5 Market research
If you want to sell your pizzas successfully, you need to know your market, it is vital to keep informed about your customers and their tastes as well as your competitors' activities. By pressing the MARKET RESEARCH key, you call up the AREA INFO panel. Eight information panels are available:3.7.5.1. Area Info
On this panel the population is divided into several groups. You need this information to adapt your restaurants in this area (their interior design, the menu and the prices) to your potential customers.
The information includes:
- Average income, telling you the average wealth of the inhabitants of this part of town, and how strongly they react to price changes
- crime rate
- traffic
- type of area
Residential area Comfort, quality, standard pizzas
Industrial area Price, standard pizzas
Commercial area Time, standard pizzas, quality
Recreational area Individual creations, quality
Shopping area Time, individual creations
Transit area Time, standard pizzas
3.7.5.2. Property info
Here the current situation on the property market in the area is illustrated. "Availability of commercial buildings" shows you how probable it is that business premises will be let or sold.In highly frequented or densely populated areas with a great deal of traffic, a shortage of free business premises might make it difficult for you to find suitable localities to rent or buy. The number of business premises for sale or rent is shown at the bottom of this page.
The information on rent and price levels per square meter is particularly important. They include an average value of the costs you will have to meet if you want to open a restaurant in this area. “Trend" tell you how property prices are likely to develop. These are long-term trends which determine how prices will develop for months to come.
3.7.5.3. Economy
Here the general economic trends are displayed.3.7.5.4. Customer taste
The six different groups are
- Children
- Teenagers
- Blue-collar workers
- White-collar workers
- Business people
- Pensioners
If, for example, the value under HOT is 0% in the first line, it means that children like hot ingredients about as much as their parents like Heavy Metal, i.e. not at all. So you should serve hot pizzas only if you want to get rid of the little darlings...
However, if you find 100% under SPICY in the bottom line, then you know that the taste buds of the elderly have become so weak that they need lots of spices on their pizzas. Otherwise they might not notice that they are eating pizza at all and think they are sinking their false teeth into a beer mat. These are only two examples. The tastes of the different groups change over time, and occasionally there can be a downright revolution. Generally, however, customer tastes are fairly constant and changes only occur very slowly.
Under the menu heading "Cooking", every ingredient is assigned a specific taste value in the status window.
3.7.5.5. Trends
As well as long-term customer taste, there are short-term trends that only last a few weeks and apply to all groups. If you are quick to spot these trends and adjust your menu accordingly, your restaurant might be the flavor of the month. Every now and then, for example, some crazy professor suddenly discovers that cucumber makes you slim. So if you have a pizza with lots of cucumber on the menu, people will be queuing round the block.On the other hand, some stupid tabloid might print a story claiming that a malaria virus has been detected in bananas. People would then scream blue murder and run a mile at the mere sight of anything vaguely resembling a banana. So it is advisable to keep an eye on the papers to see what ideas are being put into peoples' heads and what ideas for new pizzas you can accordingly kiss good-bye...
Trends are expressed in figures. Positive values mean that the relevant ingredient is IN. An ingredient with a negative value, however, is most definitely OUT.
There are different kinds of trends:
PERMANENT
Something that remains popular over a certain period of time.
EVOLVING
The popularity of the ingredient concerned reaches a maximum or minimum, only to fall or rise again at the same rate.
HOTSHOT
The popularity soars to a maximum and then slowly falls again.
3.7.5.6. Pizza charts
Hew popular is a certain pizza? The charts are calculated on the basis of the cumulative sales figures of the last seven days. Information includes the ranking, last week's ranking, the name of the recipe, the owner and the sales figures for the previous week.Your pizza creations are sure to shoot to the top of the charts very soon. But skill and quality are not the only things that count. Chart rankings are based solely on sales figures. So it is important to spread your restaurants widely in order to sell the greatest possible number of pizzas made according to a certain recipe.
3.7.5.7. Info on competitors
This information panel shows the turnover of all eight restaurant chains at a glance, so you get an overview of your competitors' respective positions. The color of their businesses corresponds to the colors on the map.3.7.5.8. Market share
The market shares tell you how big the share of each restaurant chain is in the market as a whole.3.7.6 The Newspaper
The paper is an important source of information. Use it whenever you make business decisions. The paper picks up the trends of tomorrow and even the day after tomorrow before they are shown in the trend info of market research. So if you read it you can react accordingly. Broccoli prices are on the rise! Get a large stock in now! Find out whether interest rates or property prices are changing or whether import or export barriers are being introduced for certain goods.Newspaper items will not simply appear on your monitor if something important is happening. Important events just happen and you will not know anything about them unless you click on "Read newspaper". Of course world-shattering events do not happen every day. Some journalists actually invent sensational news or blow completely unimportant items up out of all proportion. Still you should make sure that you don't miss vital news...
3.7.7 Global Statistics
By pressing the GLOBAL STATISTICS key from the main menu, you can look at all your restaurant chains and the statistical information that concerns you. Again, the different information panels are selected using the KEY PAD:3.7.7.1. Monthly overview
Your income and expenditure are split into separate categories and listed for the current and previous month. If you click on these categories, you will see a window showing the results of your individual restaurants."Orders". "Repayment" and "Miscellaneous" cannot be split up according to the individual restaurants.
3.7.7.2. Restaurant overview
Your restaurants are displayed in a clearly lad out list. On the left you can see where the restaurant is located and on the right the most important information on this restaurant. This makes it very easy to compare your restaurants with each other.3.7.7.3. Cash development
The development of your bank account for every week over the entire year can be displayed. The unit in which the numbers between 0 and 10 on the vertical axis are to be interpreted is shown above the graph. This will change when necessary, so that all sums of money are always displayed in the correct relation to each other.3.7.7.4. Financial overview - Loans
This is an overview of your current credit status, showing how much you have borrowed from each bank and the conditions of the loans. The remaining term of each loan is given in months.3.7.7.5. Financial overview - Insurance
Here you can see what insurance you have taken out with which company as well as the monthly premiums.3.7.7.6. Financial overview - Property
This list shows the price of any property you have bought and the monthly rent of rented premises.3.7.7.7. Balance sheet
The balance sheet gives you an overview of your assets and liabilities. Where has your money gone and where is it coming from? On the left you can see the assets you own or which are available to you. You will notice that only a small proportion is available in cash. Most will consist of property, furniture and machines.Not every transaction affects your profit. For example, if you buy furniture, part of your money will be entered under the heading of furniture and fittings, but the total value of your assets will remain the same. Don't worry if at first you see a loss written in red ilk on the left side of the balance sheet. This is completely normal and arises from your investments. You can only make a profit if you sell your pizzas successfully. At the end of the year, the contents of the profit box will be transferred to Company Capital after deduction of 20% tax.
3.7.7.8. Daily profits
Here you can see the development of your profits for each day.3.7.8 Telenet
You will find all the Telenet numbers in the Telenet directory for the relevant city which is included in the separate city guide.
Communication with your business partners is carried out by means of a simple menu dialogue procedure.
Yes-no questions can be confirmed with the THUMBS UP key or refused with THUMBS DOWN. In many cases you can choose between different answers. Your business partner at the other end of the line can see you just as you can see him.
Your personal Telenet database is split into the following categories:
- Estate agents
- Banks
- Insurance companies
- Authorities
- Others
3.7.8.1. Estate agents
At the estate agents you can- buy business premises and warehouses
- sell them
- rent them
- cancel existing rent agreements.
The estate agent treats business premises and warehouses in the same way.
If you want to rent a place, you will have to hand over the money for the first month's rent when signing the contract. The full rent is always deducted from your account in advance even for part months, so make sure that you have the necessary amount of cash available. Thereafter the rent will always be debited from your account at the end of each month. It is also possible to buy premises you have so far been renting. If you have been renting the place for more than a year, the estate agent might even offer you a discount.
You should, however, always be careful when buying premises. Some estate agents will try to cheat you and demand a higher price than was stated in the status window. Always make a note of the price you were quoted there and insist on this sum.
If you try to sell an object, it is customary practice to deduct between 10 and 20% of the current market price. If you think the estate agent's offer is too low, however, you can always try to push the price up by negotiating. In this case, do not confirm the offer, but click on the THUMBS DOWN key instead. Afterwards you can choose a sentence with which to answer the estate agent.
3.7.8.2. Banks
You can't carry out any financial transactions without banks! At the bank you can:- Take out loans
You can only take out one loan per bank.
- Accumulate savings
- Transfer money
The account numbers of the players correspond to their player numbers. Player No 1 will have account number 111111, player No 2 will have 222222 etc.
If you select TRANSFER, a cheque will appear. Enter the sum and the account number on this cheque. Then the banker will tell you whether or not it was possible to carry out your order.
There are two reasons why it might not be possible to make a transfer:
- The account you have named does not exist.
- The sum to be transferred is not available in the account.
3.7.8.3. Insurance
Make sure you are well insured! In case of loss or damage, insurance will compensate you at least for part of the loss. You can insure yourself against the following risks:- Theft: In case your staff is not as honest as you would wish.
- Burglary: In case your warehouse is burgled.
- Fire: Protect yourself against arson and explosions.
- Personal liability: In case you have to pay a fine.
- Loss of life: If you die, you will be brought back to life and the insurance sum will be paid out. Unfortunately, this is only possible in the game and not in real life!
3.7.8.4. Authorities
Are you ready to fight your way through the jungle of bureaucracy? How clever are you when it comes to dealing with politicians? Don't worry; you are in a stronger position than you might think because the powers that be depend on you and your donations to their party. You can use politicians to achieve your goals and donate simply to make a name for yourself. The higher your standing in the world, the easier you should find this. But your personality and charisma also play a role in this part of the game.3.7.8.4.1. The mayor
You need to have achieved at least the position of a small entrepreneur in order to be able to talk to the mayor in person. It is not easy to get through to the mayor, but once you have managed it you will receive his account number to transfer your donations to. Party donations are quite normal. A politician needs you like a normal human being needs the air he breathes or like you need your ingredients to bake your pizzas.But why on earth does it have to be you. you might ask. Well, if you make donations, the mayor will be more likely to remember you when you need him to. This can be extremely useful when the mayor is due to present awards or your restaurants have to be inspected by the hearth authorities. What's going on in the heads of these big wigs when they make decisions will always be beyond us, of course. But one thing is certain; the more generously you donate, the more likely it is that any decisions will be in your favor...
3.7.8.4.2. The police
II you want to talk to the police, you must be at least a "blue-collar worker".The policeman can give you important information, e.g. whether and when an inspector is going to pop round to check the quality of your restaurant, or the next time your central warehouse will be examined.
Unfortunately the custodians of the law are usually men of few words, and hide behind a wall of paragraphs and regulations. You have to drop fairly direct hints to make them understand what you are getting at. It wouldn't hurt to make a small donation in advance, just in case you should fall foul of the law some day.
But be careful what you say! The punishments for insulting an official are severe and would not do your standing in the world any good at all...
3.7.8.4.3. Others
These are the local arms dealer and the leading families in town. No, no... not the city's dignitaries, but that honorable society the mafia!3.7.8.4.3.1. The arms dealer
From the local arms dealers you can buy both joke articles to be placed in your competitors' restaurants, and weapons you need to burgle a rival or for (illegal) arms deals.Joke articles Include:
- Smelly cheese: Lends a very unpleasant smell to any pizzas made from it.
- Laxatives: Have such a laxative effect that the pizza leaves the customer's body before he can leave the restaurant...
- Rats: They are sociable creatures in a restaurant, even though some customers might never come back if they see them.
- Stink bomb: Leaves a terrible stench in the restaurant which lasts three days before it gradually disappears.
- Flame thrower: Bums everything within a range of about 1.5 meters.
- Insecticide: Due to its contaminating effect, the restaurant in question will have to close for several days.
- Bazooka: The projectile will destroy any piece of furniture or equipment it hits immediately.
- Bomb: Destroys everything and everybody within a range of 4 meters.
If you want to sell weapons to a dealer, he will make you an offer. You can either accept it (THUMBS UP) or reject it (THUMBS DOWN).
If you don't have a central warehouse, you will have to carry your weapons around with you. The risk of getting caught with them is extremely high. Whether the police catch you or not will depend mainly on your "dexterity" value. It is advisable to use any weapons you are carrying with you as quickly as possible or re-sell them.
However, if you have established a central warehouse, your weapons will be fairly safe there. You should store them in the warehouse as quickly as you can. Even though there are occasional inspections by the local authorities, you can find out the relevant dates by "persuading" the appropriate politician (see section "AUTHORITIES").
You can only sell weapons you are carrying with you.
3.7.8.4.3.2. The Mafia
If you contact the mafia, it might be your first step into the thrilling underworld of PIZZA TYCOON, or it might be the beginning of your sad demise. In any case, the fact that you have contacted the mafia will be noted in your CV If you want to play a role in the underworld, you should get used to the rather uncouth behavior of your new business partners who are slightly different from the ones you have known so far. On the other hand, perhaps the difference is only superficial after all...Once you have selected one of the clans and introduced yourself to its members, you are faced with the following choice:
- "I need a job on the side."
- "I need money desperately."
- "I need information."
3.7.8.4.3.2.1. Jobs from the underworld
With the
first sentence you make it clear that you are not afraid to take part in
illegal dealings. This means that the boss of the clan can assign you a job.For most deals, a meeting point is arranged, and you had better be there on time! Otherwise you run the risk of running into a policeman instead of your contact.
All underworld jobs have some risk attached. You will be told how risky it is before you accept your job. Then you have to decide whether you still want to do it or not.
If you are caught in the act, the local police will arrest you and either put you into jail or impose a fine, depending on what you were doing. You can only accept ONE task at a time.
Depending on your position in the underworld, you will be offered the following tasks:
- Courier services: Your job is to pick up goods from a certain place at a certain time and to deliver them to a different place at a different time.
- Attacks: You have to attack a certain restaurant which will be pointed out to you. There you simply do what you would like to do yourself if it was one of your competitors' restaurants. You will need to have the weapons available or buy them from an arms dealer. You will be told in advance what level of damage or contamination is desired. You will only be assigned this kind of task if you have achieved the position of a pickpocket,
- Laundering money: You are given a certain sum of money which must be transferred in equal parts to four accounts within a specified time. Use your cheque forms from the bank to do this. And be extra careful - your employer would be very unhappy indeed if there were any differences in the sums or mistakes in the account numbers! You will only be assigned this kind of task if you have achieved the position of a thug.
- Arms deals: You have to buy weapons from any arms dealer and to take them to an agreed meeting point. You will have to pay for them out of your own pocket. You will be reimbursed when you receive your reward. You will only be assigned this kind of task if you have achieved the position of a pimp.
- Share deals: You are offered a deal which requires an "investment" on your part. If the deal is successful, you will be paid the agreed amount after a certain period of time. You will only be assigned this kind of task if you have achieved the position of a killer.
3.7.8.4.3.2.2. Loans from the underworld
If you are
in a real jam and desperately need money, you can borrow the money from an
underworld clan. You will need to have at least the position of an amateur in
the underworld to do this.Select: "I need money desperately."
The underworld also grants loans when no bank will trust you any more. The interest rates, however, are huge; often, twice the amount you borrowed will be demanded back after only a few months. In the interest of your own health you should be able to repay the money when you're told to. There have been reports of mysterious accidents or sudden suicides of pizzeria owners who were hopelessly in debt...
3.7.8.4.3.2.3. Information from the underworld Select: "I need information."
If you can
come up with the necessary change, you will get some very useful hints and
tips, such as the telephone number of an arms dealer.